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‘A year later, Bosnian, Mandarin, Thai, Mien, Tagalog, and Lao had been added.’

‘Originally starting as an interpreter while deployed in Malaya, he can now speak Tetun, Vietnamese, Chinese, Lao and German among others.’

‘It is distantly related to Cantonese and other Chinese dialects, and closely related to Lao and Thai.’

‘Both of them speak Thai and Lao despite being brought up outside of Thailand.’

‘That would be no problem for ours who all speak two languages - Thai and Lao!’

‘Two of the participants' mothers spoke Lao as their native language but were also able to speak Hmong with ease.’

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Relating to the Lao or their language.

‘As such, she assists in promoting Lao culture, language, and arts through classes and support services.’

‘You could eat the chicken stew every day for a week and not get bored, and the Lao tomato sauce makes Mexican salsa seem insipid by comparison.’

‘‘There is credible information that individuals may be planning to bomb Lao government and public facilities in and near Vientiane’ and four other areas, it said.’

‘We have consistently called for the Lao government to respect the rights of its ethnic minorities and to press the government of Laos to resolve - to resolve this problem in a humanitarian and a peaceful way.’

‘One being the stories my father would tell me of Crowded House recording in the same studios as him, when he had his popular Lao music band.’

‘There are also a couple of masseurs offering traditional Lao massage, a regimen of stretching and bone-crunching worthy of the most committed contortionist.’

‘It looks like the Lao government is actually handling it pretty well.’

‘The four-day conference in the Lao capital brings together central and local government health officials from across the region.’

‘Funding and direction are said to come from a Lao exile living in the United States who claims to be fighting for democracy and the return of monarchy to Laos.’

‘Then I remembered going to uncle's house and pretending to fall asleep just as the car would pull up in the driveway, so that I wouldn't get my cheeks pinched by the Lao relatives.’

‘In conjunction with the British organization Mines Advisory Group, MCC launched a program in 1994 to train Lao workers to find and detonate bombs safely.’

‘It was built in 1904 by the French and displays a tasteful fusion of European and Lao designs.’

‘As I strolled back alone through the field, some Lao tourists with their children neared me.’

‘The new drugs cost about £1.25 a dose compared with 5p for chloroquine, so the Lao government sticks with the cheaper option.’

‘Money is handed over - the preferred US dollars rather than Lao kip - and lunch is secured.’

‘That aside, conversation with these young monks, keen to brush up on their English, can give the tourist a unique insight into Lao culture - and in most cases their intentions are wholly genuine, if not genuinely holy.’

‘Working discreetly (sometimes openly) with Lao politicians and military officers, foreign merchants siphoned off huge sums of official money.’

‘Therefore, they recruited the Hmong and the Lao forces to sort of replace the operations for the United States there.’

‘The Lao government worries that Lao language and culture is being corrupted by the popularity of these programs and that youth are learning the wrong values from the commercialism of Thailand.’

‘Thanks, unquestionably, to the exposure lent by the Weekender article, our exhibition and charity sale of Lao silk textiles was an overwhelming success.’